Urs Koenig wrote:
Questions:
1) Is there an official .co.uk domain name registrar or
is any company
allowed to sell .co.uk domain?
2) If there's more than one (which I assume), which one would you
propose.
There's no official .co.uk registrar. Personally, I'd recommend
Popular Computing Weekly magazine ordered one on the day they were announced
(probably while they were at the press office). Although they didn't get one
of the first 80-odd (the hand delivered ones?), they did get an FB ROMmed
device.
I've just picked up a bunch of old PCW mags which document
You could always re-create the setup outside of your lab (with any
sensitive items removed), with a black QL, as a photo-op...?
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Francois Lanciault
Sent: 23 November
This is the first message I've seen since 23rd October...? Loads since 23rd
September...
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Sent: 29 October 2012 12:01
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Subject:
Keith,
If it's of any use to you, I self-fund a virtual server with Daily.co.uk. I
have 2 internet forums (listerengine.com and modelenginemaker.com), as well
as using it to host my own photos and stuff.
I would be quite happy to add Quanta to the list of hosted websites, there
would be no
email has been hacked...
Does anyone have their phone no. to let them know (assuming they don't
already?).
Cheers,
Ade.
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pjwitte wrote:
Like reading my bloomin obituary ;)
No, Im alive and QLing, though not actively developing stuff
(for the time being). Knoware is down as I dont have a host.
Tested hosting it on an old laptop via DynDNS, but could get
it to reliably wake up via internet, and didnt think
Tony Firshman wrote:
Per,
I have a virtual server which is hosting some other stuff
24/7, I'd be
quite happy to host your domain as well if you like, totally FOC. I
don't have a control panel on it, so it's all Linux command line
stuff, if you can handle that, you'd be welcome.
Rich Mellor wrote:
I did speak to Peter Graf about this a couple of years ago -
and he said that [an SD card microdrive cart] would just be too expensive
a solution,
even if it were feasible.
I can see why that would be - there'd be some complex high precision
engineering required, and
Geoff Wicks wrote:
As far as the technical side is concerned the problem with a
pdf file is that we will need it to be searchable and include
the illustrations. Perhaps the people who did the QL Today
pdf archive could help.
From a tech point of view, this is much less difficult than
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I've just
heard on the radio that it's to be called the Pie Tax and
taxed at the rate of 3.1415926... %
:o)
Oh, boy, that went off at a tangent no matter which way you slice it.
Cheers!
Ade.
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Tony Firshman wrote:
That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amended) as
to why there was a dead person in the shower surrounded by
empty shampoo bottles:
1 Wet hair
2) Apply shampoo and rub in
3) Rinse
4) Repeat
The dead guy was a QL programmer.
Surely in that case
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Jan 10, at 09:11 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amended)
as to why
there was a dead person in the shower surrounded by empty shampoo
bottles:
1 Wet hair
2) Apply shampoo
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Jan 10, at 13:12 | Jan10, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Pedant (8-)#
(Pot calling the kettle black).
Tony
Why the sudden outbreak of testy emails ;-)?
Not at all - didn't you see the smile. It was a J O K E.
and the 'pot' comment
Norm wrote:
a windows 7 rant
Agreed! With bells on!
My advice to Dilwyn is simple, if you ever want to stop effing about
with Windows and having to rebuild your PC from the bits that
survived a
heave out of the nearest (open I hope) window, install Linux. I
thoroughly advice Linux
Lee Privett wrote on 13 April 2011 20:27:
Can anyone tell me what character 181 is in the Sinclair QL
character font is?
It is not printed in the QL User manual, not the ones I have anyway
I cannot find the character in the standard window fonts,
symbol or wingdings
I cannot find
Tony Firshman wrote on 07 April 2011 16:15:
Tuesday 5 April
Great Lives, 4.30 - 5.00pm, rpt Friday 11.00 - 11.30pm New series.
Sir Clive Sinclair discusses fellow inventor Thomas Edison
with Matthew Parris.
Did anyone listen? You have another chance tomorrow.
They kept raising
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I am not quite sure I understand the background to this game
Am I correct to understand that it was a public domain game
written in
1986, but only just licensed for release?
So where was the film taken, and what is Urs' link to it?
It works fine in
Rich Mellor wrote:
On 03/02/2011 12:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
It was followed by FB which may never have left the
factory - we know
that Psion had to alter their boot programs to cope with the
difference in the AT command in the FB ROM compared to
later QL ROMs
(they didn't
Agreed - Merry Christmas a prosperous new year to all!
I hope ICL OPDing counts as QLing... otherwise I've done nearly none this
year...
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François Van Emelen
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Hi Rich list,
Giga-BASIC
I think I may have a copy of this lurking somewhere, it's not original (came
to me with a QL I bought in about 1990), I will see if I can find it. No
guarantees the mdv is still readable, of course...
QL Artist - by Rodent Software
Wasn't that one of the Progs?
I happened to be poking around in my collection of old electronics
magazines, and I happened across an article about the new QL - the
magazine is dated March 1984, which would suggest the article was written
sometime in January...
So, I scanned it in case anyone's interested to see how the QL was
Hmm,
I'd looked at it, decreed that Sutton Coldfield was too far away for me to
go to pick it up. And, while it happens I will be in Birmingham on Friday, I
will be long gone by the time the auction ends :(
Besides, I already have an OPD - to get another one would just be greedy...
Cheers,
David Tubbs wrote:
I have a large suspect drive and in surfing for low level formatting
info I chanced on the following, just had to share the thought.
=
Fixing a hard disk crash
It's really not too difficult to fix your own hard drive, if
Rather than dropping it - which IS one way of making it work again, but a
last resort I'd suggest this instead:
- First check that it's not actually spinning up when you apply power.
Assuming it's not:
- Power down again, then grip the drive on the long edge between thumb
fingers, and twist it
Hi Norman,
The Trump Card will give you bags of extra memory (an extra 640k on top of
the base 128k IIRC), the ability to plug in DD floppy disks (720k/disk), and
the always-useful Tony Tebby Toolkit II (aka Toolkit 2, or TK2).
If you're currently lacking any expansion on your QL, then a Trump
Duncan wrote:
Does anyone have knowledge of the netport serial to ethernet connectors at
:
I don't have direct knowledge of this device, but of a very similar one (the
Cyclades TS-100).
Could such a device be suitable to connect a Qx0 or an aurora or a Shermes
modified base QL to a
Robert Newson wrote:
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte
blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
Of course I'd forgotten that. It's been too long since I used a QL in
anger -- even
Robert Newson wrote:
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
Of course I'd forgotten that. It's been too long since
I used a QL
in anger -- even though I have one set up right here in the
office :-/
So... My estimate of 3.5million
Norman wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I am toying with getting a 400GB hard drive ... I
I wonder how many QL microdrives that is the equivalent of ?
Using 400 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes and dividing by 110 *
1024 bytes we get a grand total of 3,813,003.6363 (recurring)
Tony Firshman wrote:
Ade Vickers wrote:
Possibly - but would a connector give up when the chip had been
undisturbed for ~10 years?
Indeed it could. Corrosion is likely on the exposed areas,
and this chip gets pretty hot, so can migrate.
OK. I'm pretty sure the CPU is ok, because
Hi Tony,
Often motherboard faults can be repairable, especially ram.
What do you see on screen when it tries to boot? When I get
Random coloured snow, various screeches and whistles from the speaker, both
microdrives spinning up down randomly, all constantly changing. The
click-click when
Neil Riley wrote:
Moving on and I'm asking purely out of interest, does anyone
know the number of paid up QUANTA members and number of
subscribers to QL Today.
I used to be a QUANTA member, but it lapsed several years ago due to
inaction on my part (oops). I've never subscribed to QL Toady
Adrian (good name)/ Witchy wrote:
Lurker time is it? :)
Well, it's about time I had another shot at being involved... I just seem to
run out of space/time just as my interest is rekindled.
This time, I have a half-decent sized (for me) office, and some actual spare
desk space! So I shall be
Robert Newson wrote:
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
Agreed, it is far simpler; but I would love to be able (one day) to
say THAT is 100% my original computer (ok, barring whatever
components needed replacing to make it work again!)
Replacing m/b to get it working?...
This broom
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Yes, Tony is your man for any QL repair diagnostics ... Ade,
can you get to the forthcoming Quanta Show at Byfleet,
Surrey, on 5th November 2006 ?
The truest answer is I don't know. I am due to be going Newbury-way to see
a Jaguar C-Type (not for me, sadly) sometime in
Tony wrote:
Hrmm - not the usual stuff. Check that there are no bent
(shorting) pins on the expansion connector.
Definitely not - the plastic cover was still in place when it died.
Could be a dodgy connection on the 68008 I suppose. That
socket was very sub-standard. It had the sort
Much to my annoyance, some of my 21 year old microdrives (it's actually
their 21st birthday this month!) have begun to bite the dust. Or, rather,
bite the foam: The little foam pad behind the tape is starting to
disintegrate.
Does anyone have a stack of dead cartridges (snapped/jammed/crinkled
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